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While exact rates are difficult to ascertain, an estimated 0.5-2 % of the population identifies at trans* 1 (Conway 2002), representing a significant number of individuals living in the United States and even more living abroad. According to data from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, rates of unemployment were twice as high for trans* people (14 %) as compared to the general population, and up to four times as high for trans* people of color . While workplaces are purportedly gender-neutral, research suggests that the "universal worker" is in fact male and masculine (Acker 1990) as well as heterosexual . As female workers became a larger proportion of the workforce outside the home, they developed ways to work within the male and masculine defined spaces of paid labor and instigated many changes to the ways organizations operate, such as the institution of parental leave policies and changes to the systems of job evaluation . But where do trans* people, whether male, female, or non-binary identified, fit within the world of employment? While considerable progress regarding civil rights in the United States has been made in the last decade for sexual minorities, trans

Author

Annelise Mennicke; Andrew Cutler-Seeber

Publisher

Springer International Publishing, Imprint Springer ; Springer International Publishing. Springer International Publishing ; Imprint Springer

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319296234

Subjects

Management, Sociology, Science